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It was early December and almost three weeks since the upset with Willow’s lungs. The triplets had reached their thirty-third week. Sydney sat in a private room off the NICU waiting for Nurse Kelly to bring her Jenna. A combination of excitement and nerves had her stomach in knots. Today, she would begin her first breastfeeding with two of her daughters. Willow wasn’t developed enough yet, but she was off the oxygen and back with her sisters in a shared bed. Although she appeared to be outgrowing her apnea, the monitor was still being used during sleeping times, and Sydney had been taught how to set it up. All three had developed muscle tone, could move their heads from side to side and bend their arms and legs with smoother fluidity.
For the past two weeks, Sydney had been a
